Jonathan Juárez

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Campaign Organizer, YUCCA 

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Jonathan “Johnny” Juárez is an Indigenous, Two-Spirit climate activist and community organizer based in unceded Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, New Mexico). He comes from the Pueblos of Laguna and Isleta, where relationships to land, water, and community have long shaped his understanding of environmental stewardship and Indigenous sovereignty.
 

Johnny has spent over a decade organizing alongside movements for climate justice, Indigenous rights, and community self-determination across New Mexico and the United States. His early organizing began through youth media work with Generation Justice at KUNM, where he first learned to use storytelling and journalism as tools for social change.
 

In 2016, Johnny’s family traveled to Standing Rock to deliver food and supplies to Water Protectors resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline, an experience that deeply shaped his political consciousness. In 2019, he helped organize multiple school climate strikes across Albuquerque, bringing together thousands of students to demand urgent climate action from local and state leaders.
 

Johnny currently serves as the Campaign Organizer for Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA), where he helps lead campaigns challenging fossil fuel expansion, corporate greenwashing, and environmental racism in New Mexico. He also serves as an elected Central Committee member of the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County.